Quarter festival from May 12th under the motto “marginal phenomena”

2023-05-11 12:01:23

A total of 110 events at 45 locations in the Waldviertel

St.Pölten (OTS) This year’s quarter festival will be held in the Waldviertel from tomorrow, Friday, May 12th, to Tuesday, August 15th, presenting 47 art and culture projects (including five school projects), which are creatively and creatively presented at 45 locations in a total of 110 events Wisely deal with the “marginal phenomena” of the region.

The start of the Waldviertel Festival on Friday, May 12, will be divided into two parts: “The White Spots of Krems. Non-places on the edge of our perception”, whereby citizens can upload these “blank spots” and corresponding usage requests to a virtual platform. In Bad Traunstein, the music school in Martinsberg shows how integration can work in the music theater piece “The Special Four”. On Saturday, May 13, in Litschau, the performative parcours “Nearer than my shadow” makes emotions of everyday life tangible, the “Cultural Train Kamptalbahn” with a colorful cultural program departs from Krems for the first time, a brunch at the new Pürbacher Kunstareal opens the Living- Rooms program “art and future lab 2023” and the Waldviertel Art Museum in Schrems presents a book about the diversity of the Retz art group and their joint work with Christa Hameseder.

From Monday, May 15th, an exhibition and an installation in public space in Krems entitled “The Second Look” will show workbooks and personnel cards of forced laborers in Krems. In Allentsteig, the interdisciplinary art project “Ausgemustert” about old people, caring relatives and 24-hour carers starts on Thursday, May 18th, and on Friday, May 19th, the light art projection “Sperrgebiet” on 2,000 square meters of forest on the edge of the military exclusion zone. On Saturday, May 20th, the First Austrian Museum for Everyday History in Neupölla invites you to “Kosher – the Jewish kitchen yesterday and today”, a lecture including an adventure cooking course by Margareta Mermelstein-Stössel, and the smallest museum in the Waldviertel in Grafenschlag to the opening of the “KulturGarten klemuwa”. 23″ with a panopticon of photographs, caricatures, installations and sculptures.

On Sunday, May 21st, the Waldviertel street art festival “Straßenrand-Festival” will take place in Ottenschlag and in Rottal the opening of a photo exhibition by Leo Bettinelli, which will open up new perspectives on the familiar Waldviertel landscape. “On the edge – oba mittendrin” of the MS Waidhofen an der Thaya tells on Wednesday, May 24th, at school for the first time about a proud grandmother from the Waldviertel. The premiere of the short film “Life on the Border” by the Waldviertel Academy is scheduled for Thursday, May 25th in Hirschbach. It shows what has happened in the border area between Austria and the Czech Republic over the past 35 years.

They want to “change edges” in Drosendorf, where from Friday, May 26, a border edge workshop, a rural university festival and an open-air cinema show in the empty station area are on the program. “Tales from the listener” with acoustic-literary works of art will deliver from Friday, May 26th, one of the last existing telephone booths in Zwettl. The chronologically last project in May is called “From the edge to the middle” and will present texts by writers who were born with trisomy 21 on Saturday, May 27 in Weitra; The evening will be organized by Manuela Seidl and the Driftholz ensemble.

For more information, tickets, the detailed program and to order the program book free of charge, contact the Lower Austrian Quarter Festival at 02572/34234, email viertelfestival@kulturvernetzung.at and www.viertelfestival.at.

Questions & contact:

Office of the Lower Austrian provincial government
State Office Directorate/Public Relations
Mag. Rainer Hirschkorn
02742/9005-12175
presse@noel.gv.at
www.noe.gv.at/presse

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